Credit: @laurenepbath This is baby Zahri, who I met at forest school in Nyaru Menteng. In fact Zahri is still in the baby house and you might recognize him from the famous wheelbarrow shot of a few days ago. 🐒❤️🐒❤️🐒. Zahri was rescued in June last year and was found severely malnourished with two bullets embedded in his tiny body. Luckily he received the care he needed and is now thriving with the other babies, although he’s definitely a lot more shy than his inquisitive friends. Something about this little guy absolutely melted my heart and that was before I heard his back story. Whilst it’s true that humans can do atrocious things to animals, and it’s difficult to understand the motives of these people, it’s hugely important to know that people born to poverty will make decisions differently than those born to privilege. I’m going to talk a lot about that in my story today so I hope you can check it out and also leave a comment here (and a like) to help this content spread further. Many people are also asking how else they can help and here’s two super easy things you can do today - 1) Follow @bosfoundation and 2) Tag a friend who loves animals into this post. 🙏🏻❤️😍 #orangutanfreedom #saveorangutans 🐒
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Was with a small group of German researchers, their aim was to watch the Total Solar Eclipse, while mine was to see the Orangutan - third heaviest living Primate after the Gorillas and the largest arboreal animal alive, meaning they are creatures that spend most of their time in the trees and complete their life-history up in the trees.
On one heavy downpour morning we took a trip to Borneo Orangutan Survival (“BOS”) Foundation: Located 30km from Palangkaraya. This Non-profit organization is a conservation of more than 600 Bornean Orangutan which numbers are decreasing rapidly by 100.000 in 19 years due to palm oil plantation, forest fires, illegal logging and hunted for food or pet-trade. Thus they are classified as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and protected under Indonesian Law against any kind of persecution of them or their habitat.
The BOS Foundation rescues, provides care and rehabilitation to displaced or orphaned orangutans rescued from areas of habitat loss and (if possible) translocate the orangutan to a secured and monitored forest. The Foundation as well provides intensive care for cases whereas the Orangutan is badly injured/paralyzed and made them unable to survive on their own in their natural habitat. It also serves as community education centre.
By the way, did you know that The Orangutan shares 97% of their DNA with humans? And they could live up to 50 years in captivity.
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